Working with Data and XML in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

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• XSLT Profiler in the VS 2010 CTP

  Irinel Crivat – MSFT Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:24 PM

  Hello, and Welcome to the Data and XML  2010 CTP feedback forum!

  I am Irinel Crivat,  Program Manager for the Data Programmability team in SQL Server. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum. We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthroughs. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the Beta release.
  
  The XSLT Profiler is a performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems in XSLT code by creating detailed XSLT performance reports. The XSLT Profiler includes a wealth of useful hints for XSL and XSLT style sheet optimizations, which are essential for XSLT-based applications that demand maximum performance.

   

  If you need to develop reliable and robust software, the XSLT Profiler is capable of detecting the performance errors and defects in coding so that they are corrected at an early stage in the development. This is essential in reducing the overall cost of developing software applications. The XSLT Profiler tool is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio to provide a seamless and approachable user experience, combining several Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft XML Editor and XSLT Debugger, Visual Studio Team System, F1 (Performance Suites), and more.

   

  If you have not downloaded or would like more information about the CTP, please visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.  
  
  You can find the walkthroughs  on the VPC disk: C:\users\Public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio.

   

  Please let us know what you think!  We'd love to get your feedback so we can make the next release even better.  Thanks for the help!

   

  Irinel Crivat
  Program Manager | SQL Server - Data Programmability

• XSD Designer in the VS 2010 CTP

  Tim Laverty- MSFT Friday, October 24, 2008 5:28 PM

  My name is Tim Laverty and I'm the Program Manager for the new XSD Designer in the VS 2010 CTP.  For the last five years I've worked in various groups at MS ranging from Visual Studio to Games to SQL Server. 
  
  Our team is super excited to have the new XSD Designer in the CTP.  We want to hear what you think of it, what we're missing, what we got right, and what we didn't.  We're ~60% done in this build and feedback you give us can and will directly affect what we eventually ship at RTM so please don't hold back.

  The walkthrough included in the CTP gives a quick view into features in the designer.  We essentially show four views over schema sets:

  XML Schema Explorer: This shipped w/ VS 2008 SP1 and offers a hierarchal view of the schema set.
  Start View: This gives stats and offers a launching point for running common queries over sets.
  Graph View: This gives an overview of global elements, types, and relationships between them.
  Content Model View: This gives a detailed "compiled" view of schema set node content models.
  
  For more information about the CTP and to get the download & walkthroughs please go to:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
  
  Thanks, Tim Laverty
  PM, SQL Server XML Tools